Daily Reading List – September 15, 2025 (#627)

Back at it today after a three day weekend to Texas. Lots of AI content today!

[article] How do AI-assisted code fixes impact code review time? Don’t expect a “drop-in efficiency boost” as noted here. But Meta’s research did highlight a few good pieces of advice.

[blog] Writing effective tools for agents — with agents. Great advice in this Anthropic post. Read it to learn more about tools and practices for building effective ones.

[blog] Gemini CLI Tutorial Series — Part 11: Gemini CLI Extensions. The extensibility of the Gemini CLI will spark another monster wave of creative use cases for agentic CLIs.

[article] Agents show promise, but widespread usage in the enterprise remains elusive. Two things can be true. It’s true that there’s excess hype and a dearth of wild success stories with AI. It can also be true that our industry hasn’t skilled up yet and the tech is improving rapidly.

[blog] How AI made Meet’s language translation possible. Case in point. Real-time language translation will be ubiquitous in a short time.

[blog] GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex. Looks like a good upgrade to OpenAI’s coding models and tools. I can’t track all the names, though. More here.

[blog] Let AI Interact with Your App via MCP. How long until agentic users outnumber human users for your app? If you’re a SaaS provider, it’s going to happen more quickly than you think.

[blog] Listen to a discussion on how AI can power scientific breakthroughs. The commercial work we do matters because it makes it possible to fund such amazing work for the benefit of humanity.

[docs] Serve open LLMs on GKE with a pre-configured architecture. I think most of us want smart infrastructure default values that we can trust and accept. Here’s an example of what you can do when you have that.

[article] At 20, Techmeme has never been hotter. I’ve been a reader of Techmeme for years, as it’s the best source I know of to get a “what’s going on in tech today” view of our industry.

[blog] OpenTelemetry Protocol comes to Google Cloud Observability. Looks like we’re picking OpenTelemetry as the winner, and it’s getting baked in for telemetry across Google Cloud.

[article] AI developer certifications tech companies want. I can’t imagine anyone getting hired because they’re certified, but it certainly signals a level of effort and interest in a topic.

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